From the Vineyards towards Troodos

Collection: Cyprus Collection

Medium: Oil on canvas

Year:

1965

Code: AGLG 460

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The canvas belongs to the painter’s mature artistic period, during which he produced some of his most emblematic works. In this landscape, the painter’s gaze extends from the vineyards of Agios Theodoros towards the top of Mount Troodos. The artist’s most abstract landscape effort, using a bold tectonic arrangement, is clearly distinguishable in this oil painting. The composition evokes influences of Cézanne’s manner, particularly from one painting from the Mont Sainte-Victoire series (George W. Elkins Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art), except that Diamantis did not go as far as Cézanne in the abstract, geometric analysis of space. The work evolves through the rendering of the landscape’s structural features. The space is given its form with successive coloured, geometrical surfaces, which were produced by broad and free brushstrokes. Here, Diamantis dared to take a more decisive step towards abstraction: through simplification and schematisation, he managed to delve deeper into the essence of things, revealing the structure, the rhythm and the poetry of the landscape.

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